Re: English {phth} (was: Hellenish oddities)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 25, 2000, 1:25 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Sphagnum, sphalerite, sphenoid, sphincter, sphinx, sphygmomanometer,
> and their derivatives.
Well, I stand corrected. Nevertheless, there still aren't any *common*
words beginning with /sf/, and I'd been responding to a comment that "In
Danish ... (unlike English) there aren't any word in common use" where
initial /sf/ is used. None of those are exactly common, in fact, I've
never even heard of the first 3.